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Lanphear and his team calculated an average 150-gram reduction in baby birthweight (about one-third of a pound) and a half-a-week earlier welcome into the world when they compared the 15percentt of the women in the study with the highest exposure to the 15percentt studied who had the lowest exposure to organophosphate pesticides, as estimated from chemical byproducts in their urine.

We excluded 784 births (0.2%) where there were no data available about birthweight and 15030 births (4.1%) in which either parent was age 18 or younger because we were concerned that educational level could not serve as a reasonable marker of SES for parents who were not old enough to have graduated from high school.

Birthweight of male infants was about 4% higher than that of female infants.

The hospital has 20 000 deliveries per year, with about 20% resulting in low birthweight infants.

Reports from Norway, Sweden and Canada using national data indicate a yearly increase in birthweight of approximately 3 g from about 1970 to 2000 [ 33, 34].

The Euro-Peristat project was established to move beyond presentation of unidimensional indicators in isolation and to present data about the outcome of pregnancy for mothers and babies stratified by birthweight and gestational age while presenting comparative data about maternity care and the characteristics of the childbearing population to set them in context.

Evidence from studies of maternal nutrition and birthweight in Pune, India raise troubling questions about the balance between folic acid and other vitamins: in the study, the children born to mothers with the greatest imbalance between high folate and low vitamin B12 levels were the most insulin-resistant (Yajnik et al, 2008).

About 2% of the children with birthweight less than 1500 grams are blind because of this pathology.

Pregnancy outcome was assessed by chart review and included the information about preterm delivery, mode of delivery, birthweight, Apgar scores and admission to neonatal intensive care unit (ICU).

Adult height and BMI are cumulative measures and little is known about the relative importance for offspring birthweight of parental growth at specific periods during childhood.

Unfortunately, no information was collected at the time about gestational diabetes; however, we include birthweight and variables on other pregnancy complications which may capture the effect of insulin resistance during pregnancy.